play fair
Definition
› to act in a fair and honest way: It wasn't really playing fair not to tell her the job was already filled.Justice and fairness
(Definition of play fair from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a fair crack of the whip idiom
- all's fair in love and war idiom
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- balanced adjective
- by rights idiom
- egalitarian adjective
- egalitarian noun
- equitable adjective
- equity noun (FAIRNESS)
- even-handed adjective
- fair adjective (RIGHT)
- fair go exclamation
- fair play noun
- liberalize verb
- payback's a bitch idiom
- play the game idiom
- poetic justice noun
- pound of flesh idiom
- sporting adjective
- term noun (RULES)
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